Intel is working together to help bring Internet to your TV, with Intel offering details of the ambitious move during the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in San Francisco. Intel will work with Yahoo and Comcast to bring 3D, interactive widgets directly to the TV, based on the Yahoo Widget Engine that is being used by Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X users.

During an IDF keynote, Intel Digital Home Group general manager, Eric Kim, introduced the new service alongside Yahoo VP of Connected TV Patric Barry, who discussed the next generation of digital home entertainment.

Specifically, Intel hopes its Intel Media Processor CE 3100 System on a Chip (SoC) will help move the Santa Clara-based company one step closer to offering technology for high definition televisions with an enhanced user interface.  Based upon the Yahoo Widget Engine which is built on Javascript, Adobe Flash, XML and HTML, third-party vendors such as Gigabyte will have the opportunity to create media devices based on the Intel and Yahoo technology.

During a live demonstration, there were widgets for Joost, Nickelodeon, MTV, Twitter, and other popular widgets were shown after it was unveiled in the Intel keynote.  Users will obviously have the ability to download additional widgets, depending on what kind of services they want on their TV.  

There have been previous attempts to try and bring the Internet to TVs, but each attempt has been met with rather lackluster results that left most consumers unsatisfied. Intel hopes its partnership with Yahoo and other companies will help create the Web TV 2.0 that all consumers will be able to enjoy.

Yahoo hopes to have the SDK available for programmers before 2009.